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Scotland Outdoors

Celebrity Goats, Sheep Shearing and Cold War Scotland

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week Rachel has been at the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston just outside Edinburgh. One of the first places she headed to when she arrived was the goat tent. She meets some of the keepers as they got their animals ready for judging and met some goats with an Outlander connection.

Mark visits the village of Ochiltree in East Ayrshire where the local community has established a heritage walk to highlight its fascinating history from the Bronze Age, its connections with James Boswell right through to its role in mining in the 1950s. Billy Cooper showed Mark around.

In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast Helen Needham headed out for a walk with author Linda Cracknell. It’s ten years since she published her first book about walks she’d done around the world, and to mark that anniversary she’s added a new chapter about the Flow Country. She tells Helen about her experience of that remote part of Scotland.

Last year, competitors from around the world attended the Golden Shears sheep shearing world championships at the Royal Highland Show. This year, a ladies competition is being held at the Highland for the first time. Rachel went along to meet one of those taking part and shearing steward Bruce Lang.

The National Museum of Scotland is curating an exhibition which will open in July looking at Scotland’s important role during the Cold War. Our location and geography meant the country played both a visible and invisible role. Mark meets curator Dr Meredith Greiling at the National Museum of Flight to hear more.

Back at the Royal Highland Show Rachel visits agricultural charity RSABI’s health hut. The hut offers basic checks of things like blood pressure and nurse Irene Scott tells Rachel about its important role in reaching those who might be reluctant to visit their GP.

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority is introducing a bus pilot. The bus will run between Aberfoyle and Callander during the peak summer months and will stop at several popular visitor locations on the route, including Loch Katrine, Ben A’an and Ben Venue. We’re joined live by park Chief Executive Gordon Watson to tell us more about the new buses and sustainability across the park.

And we end the programme on a musical note as Rachel meets members of the Farmers Choir at the Royal Highland Show. The group enjoy getting together for a sing song while raising money for good causes and they give Rachel a taste of their

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0:00.0

He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot.

0:09.3

I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II.

0:17.6

What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz.

0:22.0

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0:23.4

an incredible acts of resistance

0:25.1

and courage.

0:26.3

She was a born soldier.

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She's a freedom fighter

0:28.3

in its widest sense.

0:29.9

The brand new series

0:31.0

of history's secret heroes.

0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.1

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.3

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.3

As we say every week, the Scotland Outdoors podcast is built from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

0:55.5

which is called Out of Doors.

1:00.6

This week I've been to the Royal Highland Show hanging out with some celebrity goats.

1:09.0

As you know, if you're a regular listener, the whole point at this entire 90 minutes is so at the beginning of the programme we can have a competition about who's seen the most wildlife on the way in.

1:13.8

So this morning my score is one roed deer, eight rabbits, one pheasant.

1:17.6

What's yours?

1:18.3

Oh, I didn't know. I've not prepared for this.

1:21.2

I didn't really...

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